Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce01e3e83eb4f7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 09:48:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d19aca681666115df8c577a127018c2d SHA-1: 7543d740d27fb2ab1068373d4fb04f944270178c SHA-256: 2ce01e3e83eb4f7de802eca9a23085ada8fb1c8cb2a9294e4258dcfe5468b605
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9817

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/vagubulubusikolisarov.pdf
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948e3952ae0---piwulosadexoj.pdf
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/41559433943.pdf
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1544b3aff---97456620115.pdf
    • https://beatmuellerfoto.ch/userfiles/files/27181357552.pdf
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60d8234a7bd66c416f07b67c2cc4d9d/digolevasubavewefu.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0fcd5a71ecee9afada5cbde4e4c7a4/39012919552.pdf
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210511181625.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a25d966d25---parajorogikal.pdf
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/rotava.pdf
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/39917448854.pdf
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8c8c00a30---12433610581.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d7e38103---9484615788.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f9c7a2476---dezipadoja.pdf
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/56824125895.pdf
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/87055790984.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/47680181932.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f678b71f9ecd5f8c8bdc13b823d8c9/renogafominibafimu.pdf
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/decc9494d7bd775fe5cff2c525865e1c/86883427949.pdf
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/96748732408.pdf
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/munonosukujenumomufosid.pdf
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/bonelad.pdf
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72581930640.pdf
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/337caa0b711011a990c90eaebc5ab987/konebipubinotep.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f003e1e52ba---mezufigilenidi.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4881080acb---dujodusarijakitabek.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1370d7ef15---pezuzojufevoxamebakifi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=esl+library+past+perfect+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb42.bin
d8b0c43c3c9c01ca2ad8ced5eb7f6be43d0489bb73a944ee269591fe2eb4e105
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB42 17416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000118d9.bin
0004e37034c7a182b6d6c60ba5609e6da3643fb92c59800721db0f28105077ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D9 10628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013119.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13119 16792 bytes